31.08.2011 - Britain has too few homes for sale
Our shortage of housing is good for rich foreigners and buy-to-let landlords, but bad for young adults – and even their parents. They are a national sport, an unhealthy obsession, guaranteed to lift newspaper sales and warm up the most icy dinner-party conversation: I refer, of course, to Britain’s house prices. Napoleon’s nation of shopkeepers has indeed become a nation of homeowners, every one of us determined to acquire a slice of Eden to call our own. But there’s trouble in paradise..............................................Full Article: Source
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